What is the author's style in Finnegans Wake by James Joyce?

The author creates a narrative viewpoint. It is not immediately possible to determine how similar or dissimilar this is to the author's own viewpoint. This book is certainly neither an autobiography nor a biography.

The point of view seems to be of someone who is either falsely pretentious to a ridiculous extreme or who is intentionally very funny. The narrative voice is reminiscent of what it is like when young children pretend that they work when in reality they have no idea of what it is like to do so. The narrator seems to be pretending to be well educated. The trick of it is that the author actually is and this what seems to bring some levity to the situation. This brings up what is socially easy enough for most people to understand. Ignorance often yields errors; learning is about eradicating error through correction and being able to do the right thing. The other side of this same thing is when people know very well what do to, and are adept at doing something correctly, they can then decide to imitate ignorance for the sake of humor. The trouble is that it can actually be hard to distinguish between the two when the audience is ignorant of the performer.